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At the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, young Abe Doumar, seeing that the ice cream vendor was out of clean dishes, rolled up a thin waffle and placed a scoop of ice cream on top. Such was the beginning of this tasty treat.
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Made of cardboard, this 1900 invention popularized low-cost photography.
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Written in 1900, this novel by L. Frank Baum was the best selling children'sbook for two years.
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David Bradley's candy store was flooded soaking his confections in the salty ocean water. He turned the disaster into a money maker by marketing a new salt water version of an old favorite. It became a popular ocean side souvenir.
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The traditional rye grass, used to avoid drinking the sediment of a fermented beverage by sucking through it to capture the clear liquid above it, was replaced by a paper version, invented by Marvin C. Stone in 1888.
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In 1897, cough syrup manufacturer, Pearle Wait, added fruit flavors to powdered gelatin and sugar and created a new dessert. Sold soon after to the Gennesee Pure Food Company the dessert became an American favorite by 1902.
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Originally known as “chicken feed,” George Renninger created this popular confection in the 1880s, the first candy to employ more than one color, a key to its popularity.
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Frank Epperson patented his creation of “frozen ice on a stick” in 1923. Initially, this tasty treat was called the Epsicle Ice Pop.
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Dr. John Harvey Kellogg mistakenly let some cooked wheat go stale, but rolled it out anyway hoping for long doughy sheets. He got flakes instead. In 1906, his brother Will Keith Kellogg began marketing a sweetened, corn version.
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Inspired by a political cartoon of President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt attending a bear hunt, Morris Michtom created this new toy, which was an immediate success.
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These metal toy construction sets were first introduced by Alfred Carlton Gilbert in 1913.
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Leather tanner, John L Loud applied for a patent for this writing tool that eventually replaced the fountain pen.
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Though several inventors created variations of this machine throughout the 19th century, by 1910 the “manual” model became the standardized version with each key attached to a type bar that has a corresponding letter molded, in reverse, on its striki
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In 1914, stonemason Charles H. Pajeau designed a construction toy of wooden spools and sticks to inspire children to use their imaginations.
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